A NEW anthology of writings on, and sayings of, the Qaid- e- Azam, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was launched in Karachi last week before a distinguished gathering of the city’s intellectual and media elite. In its preface, the authors, Liaquat Merchant ( President of the Jinnah Society) and Professor Sharif al Mujahid, wrote that the book “ includes thematic essays on some critical aspects of Jinnah’s politics and leadership— such as the sort of constitutional set- up visualized by him… his role in institutionalizing civil liberties, and in emancipating and empowering women….” In his presentation, Mr Merchant dwelt at length, amidst applause, on the sort of democratic, constitutional, just and secular Pakistan envisioned by Mr Jinnah in which all sects and minorities would be equal citizens of the new state of Pakistan.
The same day, every newspaper carried headlines from the sayings of Sufi Mohammad, the self- proclaimed leader of the Tehreek- e- Nifaz- e- Shariat- e- Mohammadi ( TNSM), and Muslim Khan, the spokesmen of the Tehreek- e- Taliban Pakistan, the conqueror of Swat, that the constitution of Pakistan, signed and approved by every political party of the country, was un- Islamic and unacceptable; that the Supreme Court, for whose supremacy and independence the country has recently witnessed nothing less than a revolutionary upsurge, was un- Islamic and unacceptable; that democracy, for which tens of millions of Pakistanis have fought and voted for over the last sixty years, was un- Islamic and unacceptable; that women, whose heroic struggle for emancipation and representation which has been backed by all mainstream political leaders across the spectrum, are mere chattel who deserve no education and have no human rights.
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